When drawing a class diagram start simple: - classes, - associations, - attributes, - and generalization.
Understand the perspective and your role when drawing the diagrams.
During analysis, a conceptual model would be needed.
When writing or generating code from the model, a specification-based model is more appropriate.
On the same note, models for everything are usually not really needed and capturing implementation details too early is unnecessary.
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